So, yes­ter­day Liz and I met some­one who was sell­ing some exer­cise equip­ment on craigslist. While review­ing the equip­ment, we began some small talk. He said he went to our web­site, dcpos​i​tive​.com, and asked if we were mainly print-​​based. When I said “yes,” he said, “Yeah, I could tell.”

I’m not 100% how I feel about that but I feel the burn. I’ve known that my web­site isn’t up to par for a long time. Fur­ther­more, I haven’t made efforts to learn the web design field. As more and more projects go to the web, and clients want them­selves rep­re­sented online. I want to design and code for the web. (Sigh) It seems impos­si­ble to start now but who knows? Maybe not. Maybe not.

This week­end, Josh Petrillo intro­duced me to the music video, “Jesus is my friend.” David Crow­der cov­ered this song in a video at the end of some mes­sage. Click the link and tell me what you think. Is this a spoof?

One evening, Liz and I caught a pre­sen­ta­tion of 60 min­utes high­light­ing a group of guys known as Bird­men. J.T. Holmes, the inven­tor of these spe­cial wind suits, has devel­oped a way to con­trol their decent in a free-​​fall dive from the moun­tain tops. Dur­ing their descent, the wing­suits fill with air which enables them to fly through the air. For every one foot down they can move two feet for­ward. The thrill of this expe­ri­ence really comes into play when they fly by moun­tain sides with jagged rock. The closer they get to the sides, the faster they feel — as if 140 mph isn’t fast already. In this video clip, Steve Kroft inter­views J.T. and his friends dur­ing their trip in the Nether­lands. If you want to read the inter­view in depth, here you go. It’s amaz­ing to see.

When I was a kid, back in 1982, TRON hit the the­aters star­ring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, the arcade owner and com­puter hacker in the story. Flynn, as he is bet­ter known, gets mol­e­c­u­lar­ized into the com­puter and is held hostage by Mas­ter Con­trol, the dic­ta­tor of the inter­nal com­puter world. I was five years old at the time but saw it at home much later when it came to VHS tapes. This glad­i­a­to­r­ial under­world is so archaic when you look back on it but has so much inspi­ra­tion for graphic design­ers.

Now they have just released the pre­views for Tron, Legacy, com­ing out in Novem­ber or Decem­ber 2010. The home­page for the movie is fly​nnlives​.com. Here’s the syn­op­sis so far: Sam Flynn (Gar­rett Hed­lund), the tech-​​savvy 27-​​year-​​old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s dis­ap­pear­ance and finds him­self pulled into the same world of fierce pro­grams and glad­i­a­to­r­ial games where his father has been liv­ing for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal con­fi­dant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-​​and-​​death jour­ney across a visually-​​stunning cyber uni­verse that has become far more advanced and exceed­ingly dangerous.

Seems pretty cool, huh? As a side note, TRON was one of the first full-​​featured movies to really employ 3D art in such a heavy fash­ion. It’s amaz­ing to see how far film have come in the last 27 years (1982−2009). Amaz­ing. Click here for the trail­ers for both films. Enjoy.

I’m not much of a super-​​techie but I will say this; I found a great word­press plug-​​in today. It’s called Stream­pad and it is writ­ten by AOL Music. This handly lit­tle player will let you cre­ate a playlist from your uploaded music and allows the lis­tener mul­ti­ple options. Skip­ping tracks and vol­ume adjust­ment is expected, but the full-​​screen view and pop-​​out player is very nice. If you are a word­press blog­ger and want to high­light your audio, music or what­ever, this is a great plu­gin to get. You can get to the web page here, or you can click the link in the bot­tom right-​​hand cor­ner of the page.

Run­ning through old boxes, I’ve found a bunch of old tapes. One of these tapes was a record­ing of Liz at a record­ing stu­dio singing 6 songs when she was about 6 years old. Take a look at this photo and make your selec­tion. They’re all cute. She’s singing with a cold and doing the best her lit­tle voice can do. Makes me smile every time.

Sunny Days

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Get That Lucifer

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Jesus Called Me By Name

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Lis­ten Please

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Satan On The Run

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Stand For Jesus

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